Watch the magician's other hand

Allegedly, May wants to break up the Ministry of Justice (sic) and Paul Goodman thinks this would be futile. But I'm not so sure.

Abolishing, splitting and merging departments has one great benefit: it allows civil servants to be moved around and pockets of self-interest to be broken up. This is particularly useful where group think is found, or where a department or sub-department consistently fails to deliver due to some ideological bent which might be at odds with the declared purpose of the department.

That said, I'm a little suspicious of changes being made to the justice departments, at a time when so much constitutional meddling and malfeasance is threatening to cause something of a political / constitutional crisis.

Reorganising a department means changing stats; a great way to manipulate them.

Watch the hand to which the magician is not drawing your attention ...

Eurozone Reality

This rather colourful (if typo-ridden) comment to AEP's latest article sums up the anger of a growing number of people:

Firget all the numbers,   they are just a smokescreen

Look at reality

The ECB has to do all of this  for one simple reason.
The dirty filthy lying corrupt scheming depraved criminals that started this disgusting inception and then gave birth to the filthy turd called the euro, that they have since used to cripple democracy, steal hundreds of billions from europeans, bankupt  hundreds of thousands of
businesses and impoverish tens if not hundreds of millions of europeans, drive living stamdards down to post war levels and in some cases pre war levels across parts of southern europe, created strife, demonstrations, toppled governments and caused the longest most unholy
effing cock up in the history of europe.

For what..

For the simple reason that these ignorant diabolical sanctimonious, self aggrandinsing filth can strut their way across world stages and preen and pose and ponce about and try to look important.

Well guess what..

I am not fooled. I see these arrogant scum for exactly what they are.

The most evil scum in Europe who will lie and steal and manipulate and take everything you have to keep thier venner of respectabilty.

They are risible, criminal and utterly corrupt and utterly incompetent.

They should all burn in hell.

In 10 years , forget all else,, just look at the carnage of their  handiwork.

Does anyone need to say anymore,

Just ask any Greek or Spaniard Or Italian or Irish Portuguese what benefits this wonderful scam has brought to thier countries. 

The evidence just keeps piling up. Who can deny the thrust of his posting?

UKIP Nigel Farage met Angel Merkel - 21st Feb 12

Hat tip: UKIPMedia

Resurrecting the teaching of history

Janet Daley observes that in order to celebrate British culture, we have to first know what it is. But the dire state of history teaching in our dumbed down state school drone factories is hardly going to strengthen self-belief when all it teaches is self-loathing.

If we don't wish to repeat the mistakes of history, we'd best learn from it and we're going to have to take it upon ourselves to:

• further educate ourselves and
• educate the younger generation.

The government won't do it and in any case, why would we want it to? We have enough propaganda to contend with via the BBC and 'embedded' journalists of the corporate media.

We could do with a Wiki-history-type site, free to all, giving voice to historical perspectives that the government does not promote. For example, Antony Sutton's "Wall Street and the Rise of Hitler" alone is highly useful in helping the reader to deconstruct the propaganda arising from the Eurozone. It quite clearly shows the long-term patterns and plans of countries over the past century which are playing out today.

Or, we could adopt the approach taken by the free Khan Academy, (endorsed by Lew Rockwell in articles and interviews), which offers a comprehensive range of courses for homeschoolers of all ages.

Given the staggering cost of higher and further education in this country and the aversion that most people now have to acquiring debt in return for an 'education', might this not be a good time to explore new educational paradigms and models?

Any independent historians out there willing to give it a go? David Starkey?

Common law: judge-made law or jury-made justice?

David T Breaker correctly calls "Human Rights" the enemy of freedom.

Common law provides adequate protection, provided that jury trials remain prevalent.

Under common law, anyone who harms can be sued and the merits of the case deliberated over by a jury of peers. Ergo, where there is no harm, nobody sues.

The State has taken over the function of 'justice' where it should instead be concerned with securing our liberties. The State has it 180 degrees wrong.

The State legislates and as it does so, it subconsciously or consciously picks winners. Each statute, in some way, discriminates against or coddles some "group", which then has to be defined. If not defined, the law is open-ended - a gift for lawyers.

Statutes end up having to be rectified by more legislation, as unintended (or intended) negative consequences become apparent.

Thus, the law becomes more and more complicated such that only lawyers can unravel its labyrinthine meanderings and occult meanings.

The result is that 'justice' becomes expensive - too expensive for most people.

Ask the average person "what is the purpose of a jury?", and he will probably tell you that it is to decide as to the guilt or innocence of the defendant.

In fact, one of the most important roles of the jury is to determine whether the law itself is just. This has the effect of tempering the tyranny of legislators.

That is why many in the HoL, HoC and the civil service are beavering away behind the scenes to do away with jury trials. These people ought to be rooted out and exposed.

Some contend that jury trial is "judge-made law". I would argue that it is jury-made justice.

What if? Was this the speech that got Judge Napolitano fired?

I'd download the video if I were you, folks. I can't imagine this being available on Youtube for long.



Ring any bells?

'Aid' to India: Cui bono?

Richard Harrington MP makes another last gasp attempt to justify 'aid' to India, offering the same tired old arguments which I won't exercise here.

One has to ask, "Cui bono"?

Harrington says:

"DFID has provided us solid support across a range of sectors - public sector governance, public finance, power, health, nutrition and education ...."

Right, so the government's favoured corporations are given access to India's markets - banks, energy corporations, pharmaceuticals, "big" agricultural conglomerates like Monsanto and, no doubt, Capita's in there, somewhere.  And we're paying for that access.

Tell me.  How much tax will these multi-national corporations pay in the UK on the profits that they make, subsidised by the taxpayer?

Might any of the top DfID brass, civil servants / ministers be lined up or lining up for a job with these corporations? Shouldn't we be told, if so?

Incidentally, I posted a comment along these lines on his article at about 10:00 this morning. The comment was promptly deleted* by the "moderator" - presumably, Harrington.

I wonder why.

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* Reinstated around mid-afternoon, with the old timestamp.

Nigel Farage: We're on the brink of revolution in Europe

A sensational interview of Nigel Farage by Alex Jones.

Nigel talks about the total breakdown of law and order, of the parasite, self-annointed 'elite' class being terrified of the retribution coming their way from impoverished citizens whose wealth and countries have been plundered and conquered by them.

Don't miss this interview!

Nigel Farage is holding a Public Meeting, welcome to all, at The Burgess Hall, St. Ives, Cambs, PE27 6WU at 7pm (large car park and refreshments) on March 8th. Q&A. Nigel and Stuart Agnew MEP will be outlining how the EU and the unelected European Commission have become our de facto Government and now dominates our lives.

I'll post more details later.

Related:

• Outstanding article by Peter Oborne: The callous cruelty of the EU is destroying Greece, a once-proud country
• Germany is playing with Greek fire - Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, Telegraph 

Taxation without representation is theft

Francis Maude has managed to trim £5 billion of "fat" from Whitehall in efficiency savings.

A good start.

But when are we going to see a drastic reduction in the thousands of QUANGOs and fake charities?


What is the country's bill for QUANGOs, and why do we still have so many?

How much does the government give to 'charities' and is it desirable or even moral for a government to do so?

These bodies are not accountable to the public and should either be incorporated into the civil service or disbanded.  Too many of their CEOs live high off the taxpayer hog.

Taxation without representation feeds the black market - and rightly so: taxation without representation is theft.

It's welcome news that the civil service has shrunk by 43,000, but can't we do better than that? Wouldn't it be cheaper to pay out redundancy packages than to continue to pay inflated salaries and be liable for ever-increasing costs of final-salary pensions, bonuses and expenses of unnecessary bureaucrats?

Why do we even need a Ministry of Culture? Or of Sport? Or of Families?

Farage: Troika driving Greece towards violent revolution

Can the EU hold Greece to its "commitment" to the bailout rules?

The proposals on the table in exchange for the Greeks getting their bailout and remaining in the currency of doom are simply ludicrous.  As Jeremy Warner says, much about the bailout negotiations and shenanigans strongly indicates that Merkel wants Greece out of the zone.

Here's just one of the conditions of Greece's bailout: (my emphasis)

To get its second bailout, the leaders of Greece’s main political parties are required to submit a written commitment to fully implement the package regardless of who wins the elections in April.

This evidently seeks to circumvent the quaint democratic notion that "no government may bind its successor.

So does the "commitment" seek to bind each political leader personally?

If so, what if, on receiving the bailouts, one or more of those signatory party leaders were deposed by their parties? Would the bailout agreement still be binding?  And if so, upon whom?  The ex-party leaders?

Or are the parties, as organisations, to be bound by the agreement.  If so, wouldn't the party leaders need the tacit agreement of their party members before signing such an agreement? 

In any case, there's nothing to stop each and every one of the party members (of all parties) resigning from their parties immediately after the bailout.

Man has not designed a system which cannot be broken.

Related:

• Is Greek Side Deal With Finland On Bailout Collateral About To Kill Greek Rescue Again? - ZeroHedge
• Market Spike Driven By Latest Bout Of Idiocy Out Of Greece - ZeroHedge

Update: Jean-Claude Juncker's office has released the following statement:

Update: Antonis Samaras, leader of Greece's major conservative party, New Democracy, sent this letter to ECB President Mario Draghi - vowing to honour cuts (ha ha):

Why is Christianity being systematically eroded?

Today's press and blogs are littered with debate about the erosion of Christianity, who's doing it and whether or not it is justified, "fair", right, proper or safe.

I'm inclined to suspect that the move towards secularism is fundamentally an attack on the freedoms that we have hitherto enjoyed in this country. This is thrown into particularly sharp relief in the American context.

The US constitution's "self-evident" assertion is that individual sovereign rights are unalienable, precisely because these powers are assumed to derive from the "creator".  In the US context, this has always been assumed to be God.  Viz:

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

Now, you take God out of the picture and suddenly, the individual has no inalienable rights.  Genius. Simple. Surreptitious.

I'm not sure how this translates over to our network of constitutional instruments of nationhood but I would hazard a guess that it plays a significant role.

Related:

• George Carey: time to say that Christians have rights too - Telegraph
• ANALYSIS: Why the persecution of Christians is a key 21st century issue - The Slog

UKIP take 25% of the vote in Staffordshire by-election

ConHome reports by-election results in Leek South, Staffordshire as:

C 725, Ukip 556, Lab 432, Lib Dem 419, Moorlands Democratic Alliance 336, Ind 192. (June 2009 - Ukip 1766, C 1355, Lib Dem 905, Lab 470, Green 323).

On those figures, UKIP came in 2nd and got 25% of the vote!

	Party	Votes	%
	C	725	32.5
	LD	419	18.8
	UKIP	556	25.0
	MDA	336	15.1
	Ind	192	8.6
Total		2228

Consider this: the Lib Dems took only 23% of the vote at the GE - and they're practically running the country!

Has William Hague taken elecution lessons?

His vowels seem to have disciplined themselves recently.  David Dimbleby's also sounding a little grand these days.

Hmmm ...

Independence Day: what happens when we leave the EU?

Hat tip: UKIPwebmaster

Huhne: Hypocrisy test

The Lib Dems were all for Hester losing his bonus.  Now let's see them defend Huhne's £17,000 severance pay. 

Mind you, the BBC will be happy to assist St Huhne.  Newsnight might well be more nauseating than usual.

Nigel Farage: Whatever happened to Cameron's veto?

Clegg the Clown in charge of our constitution

This subversive, incompetent clown will destroy this country.

I challenge anyone to view his testimony to the Lords' Constitution Committee and conclude otherwise.